- One of the books in a work of several volumes.
- A book, especially a large or scholarly one.
[French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut.]
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[French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut.]
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Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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A tome is a large book, especially one volume of a multi-volume scholarly work.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bind af større værk, digert bind
Français (French)
n. - gros volume
Português (Portuguese)
n. - volume (m), tomo (m)
Русский (Russian)
(книжный) том
Español (Spanish)
n. - libraco, volumen, tomo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stor bok, lunta, diger volym, del, band
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
册, 大型书本, 卷
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 冊, 大型書本, 卷
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 한 권, 크고 방대한 책
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) كتاب كبير, جزء من مجلد من كتاب
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - כרך עבה, ספר כבד
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